Arthur Walsh

Arthur Walsh (26 February 1896-13 December 1947) was a US Senator from New Jersey (D) from 26 November 1943 to 7 December 1944 (succeeding William Warren Barbour and preceding Howard Alexander Smith).

Biography
Arthur Walsh was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1896, and he worked for Edison Enterprises before serving in the US Marine Corps during World War I. He rose to the rank of colonel in the National Guard, and he entered politics as a Democratic Party member. He served as New Jersey Director of the Federal Housing Administration from 1934 to 1935, as Deputy and later as Assistant Administrator at the Washington DC head office from 1935 to 1938, as a presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket, as a member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942, and as a member ofthe board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1943. In 1943, he served as Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority, and he was appointed to succeed the late William Warren Barbour in the US Senate in 1943. He served until 1944, when Howard Alexander Smith was elected to succeed Barbour.